" the California Child Actor's Bill, sometimes known as the Coogan Bill or the Coogan Act. This requires that the child's employer set aside 15% of the child's earnings in a trust, and codifies such issues as schooling, work hours and time-off. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Coogan
"Why should artistic children get special legal protections not enjoyed by every other child?"
No really my point , but interesting notheless.
Is is not uncommon , for example , for grandparents to set up trust funds that bypass parents. The $$ is there when the grandchild becomes , 16, 21 , or even 30( -- as an aunt of mine did.)
Clearly our "Mozart" can't be given "control" of millions of $$ when still 5 -yrs -old. But why should the parents get rich?
Tough issue, that needs a wise solution, and as we see from this thread , there is no easy clear-cut answer.
Child rights are that things that keep political theorists.awake at night, There are no clear " moral" answers. While all children grow at their own unique pace ,, that law must be set in non-subjective modes -- i.e. age. Maybe giving a judge the ability and power to decide when a child artist can take "control" would work. Parents clearly cannot be shut out totally , but the child artists need to be protected. The Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart of today would get screwed under curent policy and law.
Exactly. child artists need protection, Their parents -- or other adults -- should not have complete control. Some sort of escrow accounting should be put in place , so any $'s remain in limbo till the artist becomes 18 , or even 16 , or even just mature enough to understand according to a legal court judge.
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This is a deep , complicated and important issue
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